Chasing the dream

If you are reading this blog, it probably means that I probably posted the link on your facebook page and asked you to check it out. If not, you may have stumbled across it while researching "the man from Nantucket" limericks or just by pure bad luck. Whatever way you ended up here, I would like to just say "thank you" for taking the time to check in on me. I hope you will subscribe to this blog and join me on this journey of stand up comedy. It is most likely going to be a long and bumpy ride, so buckle up. If you're willing to hang with me on this adventure while I chase my dream of becoming a stand up comic, you will hopefully see me grow and evolve before your very eyes.

My whole life I have tried to make people laugh. As a result of this, I have endured more time in detention in high school than any one person ever should. I grew up on Nantucket Island, a very unique place to be raised to say the least. I am by all accounts the laziest person on the planet unless I am working on something that I'm really passionate about, such as comedy, music, thinking about dune buggies, going fishing with my dad or driving my mother crazy. I always wanted to do stand up comedy since I can remember, but like many things in my life, I talked about doing it rather than just doing it. So 29 years ticked off the clock in the blink of an eye, and it seemed as though I would never leave my tiny island and would never shoot for my dream of doing stand-up. That was until my girlfriend enrolled me in a stand up class in Boston. Ever since that day my life has changed. I took the class seriously, I even took notes. I was the guy that never even brought a pen to school. I wrote and workshopped my new material every chance I got. Then I took it to an open mic.

I'm not writing this as a person who has accomplished anything significant. I am at the beginning of what I hope turns out to be a career in comedy and arts. I am finally, after all these years, chasing my dream. It's the one dream i've had since I was a little kid cracking jokes in class and getting sent to the principals office. Laughter, and the pursuit of it has been a constant in my life, through good times and some really rough ones. My hope is that I am able to share some of that laughter with as many people as I possibly can.

I may succeed or I may fall flat on my face. I am prepared for either outcome, but I'll feel good knowing that I tried. So if you keep checking in or coming to shows, I'll do my best to have you leave with a smile on your face. Unless you heckle me, because then i'll make you wish you were never born. Hehe